Growing Fury
At Musharraf
Deepens Crisis

By

Yaroslav Trofimov in Karachi, Pakistan,

Peter Wonacott in Peshawar and

Jay Solomon in Washington

Updated Dec. 31, 2007 12:01 am ET

Pakistan's political crisis escalated as the party of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said it would run in next week's parliamentary elections and urged supporters to channel outrage over her death into opposition to President Pervez Musharraf's regime.

Following its dynastic tradition, the Pakistan People's Party also filled the leadership void created by Ms. Bhutto's death by naming as party co-chairmen her husband, Asif Ali Zardari -- who faced corruption and murder charges and spent several years in jail...

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